SMT if... FAQ

- What are Nova's questions and answers?
The answers are translated as best I could, but here is each question with its answers:

Q1: Do you like video games?
I love them            |     I like them
I hate them            |     Never played any

Q2: Which school club do you belong to?
Sports                 |     Arts                         *In Japanese, "go home after school club", a slang
None*                  |     I don't know                  used for people who don't belong to any club.

Q3: Do you do your homework?
Always                 |     Sometimes
Never                  |     I don't know

Q4: Do you forget things?
Never                  |     Sometimes
Often                  |     I don't know

Q5: What's your favorite subject?
English*               |     Math                         *In Japanese, "Japanese".
Sociology              |     Science
None                   |     I don't know

Q6: What's your favorite sports?
Baseball               |     Soccer
Boxing                 |     Pro Wrestling
None                   |     I don't know

Q7: Do you have a mobile phone?
Yes, and I use it      |     Yes, but I don't use it
No                     |     What are you talking about?

Q8: What do you do on holidays?
Go out and play        |     Play at home
Read                   |     I don't know

Q9: How many people do you prefer being with?
Only one person        |     2/3 people
Many people            |     I couldn't count them

Q10: If you found a wallet with 10,000 yen in it, what would you do?
Take it to the police  |     Keep it
Share it with everyone |     Throw the money away and keep the wallet

Sometimes you get the following question.

If you are a boy:
Q11: What kind of underpants are you wearing?
Boxers                |      Briefs
Thong                 |      None

If you are a girl:
Q11: What kind of panties are you wearing?
Cotton                |      Silk
Won't tell            |      None


- What does each stat mean?
The main attributes are Strength, Intelligence, Magic, Vitality/Stamina, Speed/Agility and Luck, in that order.
The other stats are Power (Melee), Hit (Melee), Power (Gun), Hit (Gun), Defense, Evasion, Magic Power and Magic Effect.

- What are those words below a demon's resistances in the Demon Analyser?
They are its physical attributes. To be honest, I don't know why they're listed, because if... has no skill inheritance.

- How do I get each route?
Yumi: Say Yes to Yumi in the very beginning of the game.
Charlie: Say No to Yumi and go to 2-E on 3F
Reiko: Say No to both Yumi and Charlie, go to the Music club. If Reiko isn't there, go out, walk a bit and enter again.
Akira: Complete the game once, then reject all the other partners, talk to the clubroom members and talk to the teacher that blocks the corridors on 3F, go to 1F and walk into the dead-end square near the Music room.


- What's the difference between each route?
Yumi: standard route.
Charlie: you get a better starting weapon, and the World of Anger instead of the World of Envy.
Reiko: same as Yumi's but with an extra world.
Akira: completely different worlds. Very hard.


- How do Guardians work?
They are "proto-Personas". When a human character dies, he/she gets a new Guardian. The Guardian you get depends on how filled is the Guardian gauge.
If it's yellow, when you die you'll get a weaker guardian.
If its red, you'll get a stronger guardian, depending on how filled the guage is.
The gauge fills up when you get experience.
To see the gauge, press X on the character's status screen.
Guardians increase or decrease your attributes. In the case of your partner, it also gives him/her spells. Once his/her spell list is full, getting a new Guardian will override some of them at random.


- Why do I keep dying? SMT1 and SMT2 were incredibly easy.
if... is very, very hard. Random encounters are very difficult, and the lack of human fusions (Messians and Gaians) makes it impossible to fuse above your level.


- What the fuck is wrong with the World of Sloth? I can't advance!
The World of Sloth is a maze composed of several corridors with school members/teachers at the end of them. To make them advance, you have to talk to them after a certain minimum of moon phases (it varies between each corridor).


- What's this item? The name is very short! What does it do?
Please check this Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/0Wwakiph
I had to shorten the names for several reasons.


- What's this skill? I can only see 7/8/9 characters in the status screen. It's even shorter in the menus!
Please check this pastebin: http://pastebin.com/ERuj63i9
The names on the left are what appears in the menus, which had to be made even shorter due to some limitations. Some day I will add descriptions.


- In the item info screen, some names do not match the selected item.
That's a problem I have yet to identify.


- There are weird squares next to some items.
That's another problem I have yet to identify.


If you have anything else to ask, please do it on /smtg/.